Example sentences of "their [noun] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the punchline had been delivered and the ensuing laughter had died away , the blonde swayed away from the bar and looked in their direction for the first time . |
| 2 | Here , within three minutes , Mark Bailey had rounded their defence for the first of his side 's dozen tries . |
| 3 | In every production there comes an awkward jerky stage when the cast abandon their books for the first time , but for The Hooded Owl it seemed to be going on longer than usual . |
| 4 | The Gulamalis received their rent for the first three months , then nothing for four months , and were told the computer was broken , the accounts were being moved , the cheque was in the post , and so on . |
| 5 | The only thing these artists have in common is their gallery of origin the Bachelier-Cardonsky of Kent , Connecticut , USA which has sent their work for the first time ever to Paris where it can be seen at Gianna Sistu for a month . |
| 6 | The welcome 's over … the introductions have been made … today it 's been down to work for Oxford United 's new manager Denis Smith and his assistant Malcolm Crosby … their plan for the first game |
| 7 | ARSENAL 'S rent-a-crowd will assist the team in their battle for the first Premier League title . |
| 8 | The Chinese foreign ministry said yesterday that a resumption of Sino-British dialogue depended on Mr Patten abandoning the proposals , which would allow Hong Kong people to elect a majority of their legislature for the first time in 1995. — Reuter |
| 9 | For many , the thought of leaving their parents for the first time left them subdued . |
| 10 | In fact , there is no further mention of the chapel in the Minute Books of their Meetings for nearly three centuries , and much later they were to claim that they did not know about it until it was brought to their attention for the first time in 1846 . |
| 11 | THE mothers at the centre of the hospital baby swop case talked of their anguish for the first time last night . |
| 12 | To make the country even more civilized the railways were embarking on building great hotels by their stations for the first time . |
| 13 | The audience were in their seats for the first of the two evening performances . |
| 14 | In the Third World new nations were flexing their muscles for the first time . |
| 15 | ENGLAND 'S Colts emulated their seniors for the first time in three seasons at the Parc de Pugh in Brecon by toppling the Welsh Youth in no uncertain fashion . |
| 16 | On 25th May , while the German army raced ruthlessly across Belgium and the inhabitants of England watched their skies for the first signs of airborne invasion , the scientists in the Oxford Pathology Department performed a crucial experiment . |
| 17 | their percentages for the first three |
| 18 | The question is whether England reached their peak for the first 45 minutes of Hamilton or whether they have the resources of skill and spirit to play even better seven days later at Pukekohe . |
| 19 | Indeed , none of the candidates sitting their referral for the first time passed . |
| 20 | Most Bangladeshi mothers breastfed their babies for the first few weeks , switching to either combination or bottle feeding after this period . |
| 21 | Their hosts for the first few days , the Lord of the Isles , Sir Alexander Macdonald , and his wife Jane , a relative of Boswell 's , waited on the shore at Armadale , a small , dirty , sandy horseshoe of a bay , to greet them . |
| 22 | PRINCESS Diana 's two young sons are to spend Christmas Day without their mother for the first time in their lives . |
| 23 | Each of the five Wedgwood Rooms had scored the biggest percentage sales increase in their region for the first quarter of 1992 . |